Past recent postgraduate students

Details of the research carried out by our recent postgraduate students who have completed their studies.

Katarzyna Aleksiejuk

Kasia is interested in anthroponomastics, especially Slavonic anthroponymy from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as in Internet linguistics. Her PhD thesis focuses on usernames on RuNet (Russian Internet), analysed from a Socio-onomastic perspective as a means of self-presentation and identity construction. Kasia studied Russian Philology at The University of Bialystok in Poland. Her Master’s thesis addressed anthroponymy of the town of Narew in the 16th century.

Papers and publications

'Pseudonyms', in: ‘Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming’, Carole Hough (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2016.

'Internet Personal Naming Practices and Trends in Scholarly Approaches', in: Names: People, Places, Perceptions and Power, Laura Kostanski and Guy Puzey (eds), Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2016.

Internet Names as an Onomastic Category, in: ‘Names in daily life: Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Onomastic Sciences’, pp. 243-255, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014.

Personal names and identity construction on RuNet. Paper presented at the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 2014.

Personal names on the Internet: usernames as address terms, in: 'Mova i suspilstvo / Language and society', issue 4, pp. 187-198, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2013.

Internet Names as an Onomastic Category. Paper presented at the 24th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Barcelona 2011.